Racial slurs find home in Cabrini hallways yet again

MARIA D’ALESSANDRO MANAGING EDITOR MAD724@CABRINI EDU

Nostudents stepped forward to take the blame for committing astring of derogatory racial acts in Xavier Hall after senior college administrators called upon students to admit to their actions in a meeting with Xavier students.

Some students denounced the acts and others took it upon themselves to clean up some of the graffiti.

“It’s immature and disgusting,” Zach Booth, a freshman business major and resident in area of Xavier where the incidents took place, said.

The incidents started on Sept. 20, when the letters ‘KKK’were found in a foyer area to one of the quads in Xavier Hall. The custodial and residence life staff were both notified of the incident, and George Stroud, director of residence life, asked Aliza Greenberg, area coordinator for Xavier Hall, to meet with the residents who reside in the hallway where the letters were found.

The residents met with Greenberg Sept. 22 and discussed how inappropriate and disrespectful the event was. No one claimed responsibility at that time.

The following day, Sept. 23, more graffiti was found in two quad areas on the same hallway where the first incident occurred.

One area had a derogatory reference to African-Americans on a wall behind a bathroom door.The second area had an explicative remark towards Greenberg in a foyer area.

Stroud and Charles Schaffner,

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director of public safety, viewed the scene and took pictures of one area. Aresident told them that he had seen the other graffiti and cleaned it off the wall.

On Sept. 26, another incident of racism was found in the same